Rom Nain Malaysiakini Jun 21, 2012 As the 13th general election looms on the not-too-distant horizon, the incumbents seem to flinch at giving us all a date when it will be held. Indeed, the coast seemed clear for them to set a date some months back. But three letters, N, F and C, some related cows, cars and condos – and the predictable disappearance of few million ringgit of our tax money – started to screw things up. Of course, no sooner had the minister involved been chastised and then, of course, cleared and forgiven, then the mainstream media got all that off our radar. But, as the saying goes, it doesn’t rain, it pours. So, despite the goodies increasingly being dished out from the taxes we pay, to soften most of us up – from one BR1M to the next, from one material promise to the next – truly ‘unfortunate’ official screw-ups still occur to further stall matters. These...